Alice Rich

Passages Series
The body of works called “Passages” is my attempt to describe the noun ‘transition’ through visual inscription in the form of a landscape. In some works the use of a continuous solid horizontal bar or in others, an opening in a horizontal band is an intentional pause. The idea is to form a resting place for the viewer, a visual comma or breath. It is a “time out” to think and to consider the evolution toward completion of the context both intellectually and as a visually comprehensive painting. The “transition” invites the viewer to journey to either side of the picture plane and actual surface layers, to explore and to ponder the visual thoughts and outcomes. The segmentation is intended to provoke this pause, to provoke a question or a doubt, and hopefully to move viewers to their own personal thoughts. Unlike non-objective work, the resolution here is in the form of a landscape. The paintings in this series complete their own puzzle. Those viewers, who prefer not to contemplate the intent, can rest comfortably in a landscape painting.